403483 - dialogs are truncated

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[timeless]

Attachment: Truncated Helper Application dialog

Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007110505 Minefield/3.0a9pre

steps:
1. try to download a very long PPTM file
2. choose to open with.

get a strange truncated dialog.

later, try to open an exe file

get a dialog (truncated) insisting it's a PPTM file.

Comment 1

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Attachment: Truncated Download *exe* file dialog

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

The first image looks like the new dialog that Jim did maybe?

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

The dialog doesn't get truncated for me, and the text can be selected to show the cut off part. Was the first one a mockup because we don't have any dialogs like that for downloads.

Comment 4

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

we fixed a bug on this a while back in the app picker- it was caused by really long file names. Not sure about the first one though.

Comment 5

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400466

Comment 6

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Sorry, first one is fixed. Second one is the save exe dialog I think. There's an open bug on standardizing the way some dialogs look (app picker vs. content hander)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403982

The second might also fall in that realm if we want to expand it. We just need to make sure all content handling dialogs use the same mid clipping on long filenames.

Comment 7

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Attachment: firefox 3.0

Comment 8

[Jim Michaels]

the main reason I have discovered why dialogs start missing parts and pieces is because of a lack of memory.  when I increased my memory to 3GB, I had no more problems. 3GB on XP is plenty.  I consider 1GB RAM on XP to be a minumim.  try setting your VM swap file size to 4GB.  that should give you plenty to work with if you can't afford memory at this time.  it WILL make your machine slow, however.

your problem might not be a problem with firefox, but a generic problem with underpowered PC's.  There are workarounds.

Go into Start, right-click on My Computer, pick Properties. Advanced tab. Performance|Settings|Advanced tab|Virtual Memory|change|custom size.
Initial size=4096, Maximum size=4096
click Set, click OK on all the rest of the boxes.  then reboot once you are out of System Properties.